Business Development Consultant

Bidvest Prestige; Limpopo; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Bidvest Prestige is seeking a proactive Business Development & Marketing professional to refine and enhance sales and marketing strategies. The role focuses on chasing new clients, managing tenders, and coordinating with leadership to achieve growth targets.

Key responsibilities include compiling high-quality proposals, following up on leads, and promoting sister companies. A strong background in sales, marketing, and service industries is preferred, with a valid driver’s license and relevant

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree/National Diploma in Sales/Business Development/Marketing.
• Matric (Senior Certificate).
• Valid Driver’s License.
• Min 3 Years’ Solid Experience In Business Development & Best Practices within the Sales Environment.
• Strong Sales & Marketing Knowledge (Ideally In The Services Industry).
• MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Actively search, pursue and engage potential clients.
• Knowledge of existing contracts and weekly meetings with Regions General Manager & Operations Manager.
• Manage the compilation, and where necessary draft, high quality proposals, bids and tender responses.
• Follow-up and survey leads generated through various channels and cold calling.
• Ensure tenders and bids are responded to in a professional, timely and compliant manner.
• Engage and manage strategic suppliers who are providing solution and commercial content for proposals, bids and tender responses.
• Identify weaknesses in sales process and address.
• Follow-up on cancelled contracts.
• Implement and manage strategic initiatives to ensure that annual growth targets are met and ideally exceeded to increase the company’s market share.
• Achieve Monthly Sales Budgets by implementing and maintaining a marketing and sales strategy.
• Identifying new growth opportunities by market segments.
• Using the full marketing mix for the company’s marketing communications.
• Promote sister companies – Steiner Hygiene, TopTurf, etc.
• Provide a comprehensive sales and marketing report on a weekly and monthly basis

Skills

Sales & Marketing Knowledge

Negotiation Skills

Team Leadership

Relationship Building

Attention To Detail

Excellent Written Communication

Excellent Oral Communication

Planning & Scheduling

Customer/Client Focused

Result Oriented

Stress Tolerant

Creative & Innovative

Education

Bachelor’s Degree/National Diploma in Sales/Business Development/Marketing

Matric (Senior Certificate)

Tools

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel

MS Outlook

Job description

ROLE PURPOSE

To contribute to the process of refining and enhancing, on an ongoing basis, the current and future sales and marketing strategy.

MAIN OUTPUTS

Sales:

• Actively search, pursue and engage potential clients
• Knowledge of existing contracts and weekly meetings with Regions General Manager & Operations Manager
• Manage the compilation, and where necessary draft, high quality proposals, bids and tender responses
• Follow-up and survey leads generated through various channels and cold calling
• Ensure tenders and bids are responded to in a professional, timely and compliant manner.
• Engage and manage strategic suppliers who are providing solution and commercial content for proposals, bids and tender responses
• Identify weaknesses in sales process and address
• Follow-up on cancelled contracts
• Implement and manage strategic initiatives to ensure that annual growth targets are met and ideally exceeded to increase the company’s market share
• Achieve Monthly Sales Budgets by implementing and maintaining a marketing and sales strategy.

Marketing:

• Identifying new growth opportunities by market segments
• Using the full marketing mix for the company’s marketing communications
• Promote sister companies – Steiner Hygiene, TopTurf, etc.

Reporting:

• Provide a comprehensive sales and marketing report on a weekly and monthly basis

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

The Applicant must meet the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree/National Diploma in Sales/Business Development/Marketing
• Matric (Senior Certificate)
• Valid Driver’s License
• Min 3 Years’ Solid Experience In Business Development & Best Practices within the Sales Environment
• Strong Sales & Marketing Knowledge (Ideally In The Services Industry)
• MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Outlook

FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES

• Ability & Desire To Sell
• Result Oriented
• Attention To Detail
• Stress Tolerant
• Excellent Written Communication
• Team Leadership
• People & Task Orientated
• Assertiveness
• Action Orientated
• Customer/Client Focused
• Negotiation Skills
• Interactive Reasoning
• Planning & Scheduling
• Teamwork
• Relationship Building
• Good Listening Skills
• Excellent Oral Communication
• Creative & Innovative